UNLOCKED

For Eli Scheinman, building communities is not just about fostering conversations around art—it’s about creating meaningful connections that resonate with life itself. As Head of Art at Proof and Director of Art at Yuga Labs, Scheinman discusses the importance of authentic relationships in the art world and how they enrich the experience of collecting.

The friction humans create on Earth: that’s one of the obsessions explored by Spanish artist Solimán López, whose groundbreaking projects connect diverse disciplines like physics, astronomy, biotechnology, and digital art. He is also the founder of the Harddiskmuseum, a repository for contemporary thinking. For him, collecting and analyzing data is the only way humankind can look back and learn fr...

Artists Liaison at Unit London, Alice Fry builds bridges between artists and collectors and helps to transform great ideas of the digital realm into palpable exhibitions of the physical world. 

Seeking innovation in all its forms, artist and founder Jorge Welsh uses his findings to invest, collect and create in the art and technology worlds. With a background rooted in the art world and involved in crypto since 2016, this marriage of two domains has informed a unique perspective that informs his decision making as he takes the best from the old and the new. 

Founder of Nuqtah, the first NFT marketplace in Saudi Arabia, Salwa Radwi is driving the transformation of the country’s new creators’ economy by bridging gaps between the culture, arts, and technology spheres. Unstoppable entrepreneur and an artist herself, she is a key figure working with blockchain technologies with the Ministry of Culture and of Tourism. "Why does someone who loves art st...

He spent his childhood in Paraguay and Europe and his teenage years in Norway and the Emirates. It's not surprising that the themes of "in-betweenness" and migration influence Daniel H. Rey's perspective on the art world. Currently living in Dubai, this curator organizes original projects and exhibitions that blend the Arab world and Latin America. He sees himself as a storytelle...

A person-to-person connection is what appealed to Bharat Krymo’s decision to become involved in crypto in 2013. More than ten years later, the immediate bond between artists and collectors still takes this angel investor, with a diverse investment portfolio including 6529 Holdings, down the rabbit hole of digital art and NFTs.

She is among the Top 20 inspiring women who manages extensive exhibitions, cultural projects, and art fairs between the UK and the Middle East. He directs The Media Majlis museum in Doha and manages some of the most celebrated international cultural projects, strategic alliances, audience development and stakeholder initiatives. Auronda Scalera and Alfredo Cramerotti make a nearly perfect curatori...

With her, you are always at the right address! Aleksandra Artamonovskaja has a keen eye for identifying, curating, and discussing the role of art in the digital age as if she is observing ahead of our present. Head of Arts at Trilitech, where she leads art projects across the Tezos ecosystem, Aleksandra Art was part of the core team that launched .ART, the digital address for the arts community. N...

Think about an oasis for showcasing digital art: Clemence Cazeau and her team transformed such a dream into reality! The gallery 37xDubai just showcased its debut exhibition dedicated to light, with stunning digital and physical works. And what a beautiful view of Dubai's cityscape!  

What makes one artist an artist? Can AI create autonomous art? Such questions drive the Botto Project, an engine that creates over 4000 unique images every week, all untouched by human hands. As founder of Elevenyellow, Selo was part of the founding team of this artist/robot. The Spanish collector is also part of Colección Solo, a private contemporary art collection based in Madrid.

Poem is in the air! Literary artist Ana Maria Caballero brings classical literature to new audiences by incorporating technology to create digital interactive experiences. Set to publish her sixth book this May, the Colombian-American artist has also created the literary gallery theVERSEverse which promotes leading voices of poetry in the Web3 space. Listen until the end of her discussion as Ana M...

Around him, no one gets bored. From Paris to Lisbon, John Karp has created some of the most innovative events in the digital art world. Entrepreneur and collector, he wakes up every morning talking passionately about NFTs in his podcast (he has recorded more than 600 episodes) and loves to teach people about the "pioneer spirit" of the digital space.

Does collecting digital art sound like a distant universe to you? Daniel Lenikus has bought over 500 NFTs in the last four years and will persuade you otherwise in this interview. To show everyone that collecting is a piece of cake, the Austrian CEO has launched the platform Tokapi - where buying art can be as easy as purchasing items on eBay.

Avatars don't have body limits or the physical constraints we face daily. If they could be anything, why do these virtual creatures still look a lot like us? Imagining virtual bodies can be liberating for humans; an exercise of freedom. Artist, curator, and educator Martina Menegon is so into this idea, she sometimes forgets to take care of her physical self!

Eleonora Brizi showed up in Ai Weiwei's studio in Beijing and stayed for over four years as his assistant. In New York, she heard about Crypto Art for the first time and immediately found Breezy Art, a laboratory for experimentation with Blockchain technologies. Eleonora Brizi has the best of both art worlds: the physical and the digital. Plus, she is the only one to have launched a phygital b...

Posthumanism? Postgenderism? What do all these 'post' concepts actually mean? In her exhibitions, Alice Scope discusses the future of humans and how technology might help us build a more just society. For her, we can push our imagination to create better worlds and not recreate our mistakes. Learn with Ukrainian art curator and researcher Alice Scope, currently working with Vellum LA, and...

We need people like Fanny Lakoubay to demystify the digital space. The Crypto and NFT world has been turned into an almost inaccessible subject, and the digital art advisor and curator sets the record straight. For her, collecting is not just buying, documentation on digital art as a cultural movement is scarce, and women collectors are still underrepresented. A collector herself and founder of LA...

Spanish digital creator, designer, and curator Diego Iglesias Gomez runs one-of-a-kind projects linking architecture to digital technologies. In the second episode of Unlocked, he discusses with Delfina Sena about his out-of-the-box Hyper Studio, as well as Madrid’s Urban Digital Arts Festival. His critical mind -"The majority of the NFT world is white, heteronormative and male," he says...

Tam Gryn is all about developing mind-blowing projects at the intersection between art and other industries. Over the past years, the Venezuelan curator has been finding solutions to the million-dollar question: how to find new financial models for artists to survive and culture to keep evolving? In this compelling conversation with Pauline Foessel, she also explains how and why she came to write...

His first art piece was a huge party - and his following creations were no less surprising! French artist Ben Elliot believes building an artistic career is the same as building a brand. He has created the Ben Elliot Shop, the Ben Elliot Water, and his own cryptocurrency, apart from the ambitious project Metaone. In this episode of Unlocked, Delfina Sena investigates his avant-garde working proces...

In the inaugural chapter of Unlocked, our host Pauline Foessel interviews the brilliant Fernando Magalhães aka MGXS, the Lisbon-based visual artist who, in his first drop, sold nothing less than 10.000 digital works in 4 minutes! "One person mad enough can achieve gigantic possibilities!", he says. Passionate about technology since his childhood, MGXS discusses generative art, AI and his...